Grade 5 - English Language2.9 Punctuation - Quotation Marks ('' '')

RULES FOR QUOTATION MARKS USAGE:

Direct Quotation:
Place quotation marks before and after the exact words of a speaker or writer.Examples:
The teacher said, "Did you do your homework?"
"I know the answer," she said.
"Eating and drinking," she said, "are not allowed in the library!"

Indirect Quotations (no quotation marks needed)
Indirect quotations are not the speaker's exact words. The word "that" is often a good clue that the words following are not being quoted exactly.Example: She said that she loved swimming.

Use quotation marks to enclose the names of television shows, short poems, essays, short stories, and chapters from books.Example: Mark Twain wrote the novels "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer".

Use quotation marks to emphasize sarcasm, irony, or humor.Example: Cigarettes don't kill; they "control the population growth!".

Use single marks to enclose a quotation within a quotation.Example: She said, "The publisher called the novel 'a blockbuster' and wanted her to write a sequel."

Directions: Answer the following questions. Also, write at least two examples each for the rules for using quotation marks given above.